William Marchant

William "Frenchie" Marchant (1948-28 April 1987) was an Ulster Volunteer Force leader during The Troubles. The mastermind of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 1974, he was murdered by the Provisional IRA in 1987.

Biography
William Marchant was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland in 1948 to an Anglo-Irish family descended from French Protestants. He joined the Ulster Volunteer Force before 1974, and he became a Major in the A Company of its 1st Battalion Belfast Brigade. Marchant organized the Dublin and Monaghan bombings as a member of the "Freddie and the Dreamers" gang of car thiefs (named for an English 1960s pop group) who stole the cars used in the bombings. He also planned to murder the family of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, and he was responsible for the 2 April 1987 murder of Larry Marley. On 28 April 1987, Marchant was killed in a Provisional IRA drive-by shooting outside of The Eagle fish and chips restaurant on Shankill Road, where the UVF Brigade Staff was headquartered.